Lothal (IPA:[loˑt̪ʰəl]) was one of the southernmost sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation,[2] located in the Bhal region of the Indian state of Gujarat. Construction of the city is believed to have begun around 2200 BCE.[3]
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the official Indian government agency for the preservation of ancient monuments, discovered Lothal in 1954. Excavation work in Lothal commenced on 13 February 1955 and continued till 19 May 1960. According to the ASI, arguably Lothal had the world's earliest known dock, which connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route. This trade route stretched between Harappan cities in Sindh (Pakistan) and the peninsula of Saurashtra where the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea. However, this interpretation has been challenged by other archaeologists, who argue Khufu's Red Sea harbour at Wadi al-Jarf (Egypt) is older, dating its construction to between 2580 to 2550 BCE[4] and that Lothal was a comparatively small town, and that the "dock" was primarily an irrigation tank.[5][6]
The National Institute of Oceanography in Goa discovered foraminifera (marine microfossils) and salt, gypsum crystals in the rectangular structure clearly indicating that sea water once filled the structure and it was definitely a dockyard.[7]
Lothal was a vital and thriving trade centre in ancient times, with its trade of beads, gems and valuable ornaments reaching the far corners of West Asia and Africa. The techniques and tools they pioneered for bead-making and in metallurgy have stood the test of time for over 4000 years.[8]
Lothal is situated near the village of Saragwala in the Dholka Taluka of Ahmedabad district. It is six kilometres south-east of the Lothal-Bhurkhi railway station on the Ahmedabad-Bhavnagar railway line. It is also connected by all-weather roads to the cities of Ahmedabad (85 km/53 mi), Bhavnagar, Rajkot and Dholka. The nearest cities are Dholka and Bagodara. Resuming excavation in 1961, archaeologists unearthed trenches sunk on the northern, eastern and western flanks of the mound, bringing to light the inlet channels and nullah ("ravine", or "gully") connecting the dock with the river. The findings consist of a mound, a township, a marketplace, and the 'dock'. Adjacent to the excavated areas stands the Archaeological Museum, where some of the most prominent collections of Harappa-era antiquities in India are displayed.
The Lothal site was nominated, in April 2014, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its application is pending on the tentative list of UNESCO.[9][1]
^ abc"Archaeological remains of a Harappa Port-Town, Lothal". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
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^Kulke, Herman (2004). History of India. Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9780415329200.
^"World's First Port Discovered in Red Sea". www.hic-mena.org. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
^Leshnik, Lawrence S. (1968). "The Harappan "Port" at Lothal: Another View". American Anthropologist. 70 (5): 911–922. doi:10.1525/aa.1968.70.5.02a00070. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 669756.
^Leshnik, "The Harappan 'Port' at Lothal"
^"Foraminifera as an additional tool for archaeologists – Examples from the Arabian Sea". 25 September 2015.
^"Excavations – Important – Gujarat". Archaeological Survey of India. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
^https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5918/, UNESCO
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